Kerry Bowman
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Dr. Kerry Bowman, PhD, is a bioethicist and conservationist. Best known for his work and publications in bioethics, Dr. Bowman is also the president and founder of the Canadian Ape Alliance and is currently working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
[edit] Studies and Work in Clinical Ethics
Dr. Bowman has a PhD in bioethics, a fellowship in cultural psychiatry and a master's degree in social work. He is an assistant professor in family and community medicine at the University of Toronto, bioethicist with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and is appointed to the University of Toronto Centre for the Environment. He is also a clinical ethicist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Bowman lectures and publishes widely on ethics in health care, mediation, end-of-life care and cultural diversity. He has consulted extensively on these topics in Germany, South Africa, The People's Republic of China, Brazil and Iran.
[edit] Conservation and Environmentalism
Dr. Bowman is the president and founder of The Canadian Ape Alliance and a member of the board of directors of The Jane Goodall Institute. He travels frequently to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as a conservationist and environmentalist, working to help protect the great apes of Africa. Dr. Bowman's first experience with great apes was as a behavioural researcher, observing orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo.
Dr. Bowman lived for a period among hunters in Cameroon to study their attitudes toward the hunting and eating of chimpanzees and gorillas. His primary focus is on balancing environmental protection with the promotion of human well-being. Currently, he is also working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
He frequently consults internationally on conservation issues in various parts of Africa, as well as India, Indonesia, Brazil and Iran. In addition, Dr. Bowman has consulted for the Center for Disease Control in Georgia on research exploring the link between the hunting of great apes and the transmission of retroviruses such as HIV.
